trust me its an Edinburgh thing

a group of us offered to be keyholders for this cemetery a while ago.. the council refused

yes! someone got it haha

@@deadgoodwalks superb mate

It’s natural decay. Quite suitable for a cemetery.

I was absolutely APPALLED by the state of this Cemetery. Are those Graves in the abandoned Mausoleums. What are the Tombs on the walls. Whoever is in charge, should be ashamed of themselves. If these were my Family, I would be REALLY PISSED. Give me the name of whoever is in charge. I am going to write them a nasty letter.

Yes the lack of respect for the site and it’s history was shocking, watching from the US and there’s no real history to admire and see. If this was anywhere else it would be protected and cleaned up..shame on the council !…a pity the locals couldn’t make an effort to improve this amazing place.

@@Allison-hg9vm You clearly dont know how cemetaries work. This is normal natural decay. who is going to pay for the restorations of those tombs? their decendants? good luck trying to find them and trying to make them pay huge amounts of money. When YOU will be dead an burried a hundred years later your grave will also look decayed and your own great-grand childrend wont even know your first name. ANd no one is going to pay for your graves upkeep. Do you know the names of your great-grandparents or great-great grandparents? do you know where they are burried and do you visit their grave to clean it and do you pay for restorations? Dont think so. So you can stop virtue signaling now.

This looks like it has been abandoned for quite some time! It would probably take more money then the city is willing to spend! A whole lot more money!

Thank you Ian!

Makes for great viewing not knowing what’s around the next corner ha

No. Rather the opposite. These people need comfort and protection and the deceased need visits. It will spawn more guardian angels... To save them all together.

@@seacampal1425 Thats a nice way to think of it, however in such a low point in their lives, it would be more uplifting if their company were alive.😊

Sadly ran out of time but it’s on my list for when I go back

I am wondering the same thing.

Yea. Me too

So, first things first they are NOT mausoleums as there is no above ground burial or burial chamber but are actually what are known as Lairs or Lairages and for most intents and purposes are basically fancy grave surrounds with the burials in the ground underneath, they are popular in scottish cemeteries for a fairly complicated historical reason that boils down to "religion says you should be buried in the earth" so people spent their money on fancy surrounds

@@michellebateman6400 So, first things first they are NOT mausoleums as there is no above ground burial or burial chamber but are actually what are known as Lairs or Lairages and for most intents and purposes are basically fancy grave surrounds with the burials in the ground underneath, they are popular in scottish cemeteries for a fairly complicated historical reason that boils down to "religion says you should be buried in the earth" so people spent their money on fancy surrounds

@@Betharoot So, first things first they are NOT mausoleums as there is no above ground burial or burial chamber but are actually what are known as Lairs or Lairages and for most intents and purposes are basically fancy grave surrounds with the burials in the ground underneath, they are popular in scottish cemeteries for a fairly complicated historical reason that boils down to "religion says you should be buried in the earth" so people spent their money on fancy surrounds

That’s hundreds of years of soot from industry and people’s fireplaces belching out pollution. Many of Edinburgh’s buildings have been cleaned in recent decades to reveal the lovely bright stone colour underneath but some are still covered in dirt. Most famously they attempted to clean the Scott Monument in Princes Street because it was completely black from top to bottom but when they started the process they quickly realised that the centuries of dirt are all that’s holding it together, so they had to abandon the task and in the end they just replaced the most unstable parts with new stones and left the rest as it was, hence the ‘patchwork’ look it has today. Imagine how amazing the graveyard would look if it was all cleaned! Or maybe that would lessen its charm 🤔

@@mei5050 Thank you 😊.

Thanks for the info. Dead Good Walks Esq

@@deadgoodwalks another bit of info, these types of structures are not considered mausoleums but are Lairs or Lairages which is an old name for a scottish burial plot, for a long time scottish religion was keen that you be buried in the ground (soil) and not in some above ground vault or crypt/catacomb so wealthy families would buy a plot and built these elaborate surrounds and placed ornate grave stones so show off as much as they could.. If you ever do more stuff up in scotland by all means hit me up for info!

The cemetery pre dated the road, many of the graves were moved to the nearby new calton cemetery, if you go into that cemetery you can find some of the old gravestones which have names and dates that pre date that cemeteries opening

You should see the ones in Louisiana and over in Kansas as well, any place a natural disaster has hit in the United States has wrecked a lot of cemeteries and cities have not kept up with the upkeep. It's very sad

Thanks Jason. Yep typically heroin and crack as far as I’m aware

there are multiple services that are pretty good in edinburgh offering various accomodations from basic hostes up to so called tiny houses.. there are places for these people but getting them to use them is the issue

Thanks so much Ellen

@@deadgoodwalks no, thank you!

Soot from Victorian times

Hey, as far as I know they are below

I read somewhere online maybe I got it wrong that some teenagers went to this graveyard dug up I think they did a skull and kicked it around ?!

@@sunflower-xj6pe greyfriars, they broke into one of the proper mausolea there

@@deadgoodwalks Correct, above ground or vault burial in scotland only became MINIMALLY popular in the late victorian era, there are some catacombs in other edinburgh cemeteries that were bearly used

the ground, mausolea have never been popular in scotland

In ground burials, these are not mausolea but basiclly fancy grave surrounds

the sandstone has had a couple of centuries to pick up soot and smog.. thats what you can see, some occasional homeless fires but mainly soot and smog from the victorian era

Spot on, the burials were in ground with these structures built to enclose a families burial plot, scottish religion basically disliked anything but in ground burial which led to things like this being built as a show of wealth

Mostly in the ground or possibly its all rotted away

In the ground, these structures can be basically considered as fancy grave surrounds

PS. Deadicated Esq.

Hahaha. Yes please use my full name. Thanks Rab